Why The Fall Of Singapore

The Fall of Singapore
1 INTRODUCTION
Singapore, the impregnable fortress, the “Gibraltar of the East”. It stood this way since long ago, with Australians using it since 1920. It was the British symbol of Eastern power and on February 15th, it fell control the control of the Japanese empire. In a fresh new battle front, a war had begun. A war of the pacific that was only ten weeks old. Britain’s foothold into the Pacific had been taken, and it took only seven days. Painfully undefended, it stood no chance.
2 LEAD UP TO THE BATTLE
1942 was the 4th year of World War 2. The pacific is falling under fire from the Japanese Empire, a devastating force. At the later end of the previous year, they had won in many places of strategic value including their attack of
They suddenly realised that the Japanese were not the inferior race that the British had made them out to be. They were far more powerful, and far more ferocious than anyone had expected or prepared for. Australia’s British security blanket had disappeared, and they became very vulnerable. In the event of an attack there were no more British available to defend them, the Americans would be occupied with the recovery at Pearl Harbour and their own army were occupied in the deserts of North Africa, fighting for Britain.
It was not only foreign countries that were effected however. The people of Singapore itself were greatly effected in many ways. Many of the locals that had helped the Allied forces were tortured to the point of death, those that survived tried to assist the Allied Prisoners of War. Other locals viewed the Japanese as heroic liberators.

The British had lost, the Australian were vulnerable, and the Japanese Empire grew more and more powerful by the minute. Only four days after that Fall of Singapore, the Japanese bombed the Australian city of Darwin. They had become the new powerhouse of the Pacific. 6 ADDITIONAL SOURCE